LDS AND UTAH RECORDS ONLINE

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ABSTRACT: The LDS Church has been a record keeping
Church since its beginning and a wealth of records are now
available online for anyone searching for LDS and/or Utah
ancestry. These include early membership information, vital
records from various Mormon locations, emigration records,
newspapers, county and state records, journals and diaries,
and the WPA (Works Project Administration) interviews of
Utahns during the Great Depression in the 1930s. This
presentation will show how to find and use some of these
records. The notes for this class and related articles,
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Problem for today: How to find LDS and Utah
records and sources online to document and find your relatives.

LDS RECORDS ONLINE

Susan Easton-Black's "Membership of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints 1830-1848"-- 50 vols of LDS
and 6 vols of RLDS (now Community of Christ)

Mountain West Digital Library -- http://mwdl.org/
-- portal to collections at many libraries with online
Mormon info -- Searches: "Mormon" gives more than 13,000
hits, "lds" gives more than 10,000 hits; each has many
specialized collections listed at left side of page

LDS-Hist: Historical Resources on the Internet - old
website now available on the Internet Archive Wayback
Machine -- LDS-Hist

LDS Immigration

Mormon Migration project at BYU Center For Family
History and Genealogy -- http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/ --
LDS companies of converts immigrating to America --
includes names, companies, ships, dates of immigration,
and quotes from documents and journals of fellow
passengers; constantly being updated -- search brings up
passenger name, as well as quotations from documents and
journals mentioning him or her; earlier version was
produced on CD and sold at LDS Church Distribution
Centers

UTAH RECORDS ONLINE

Mountain West Digital Library (mentioned above) -- http://mwdl.org/ -- portal
to collections at many libraries with Mormon
information online -- search for
"utah" gives more than 305,000 hits with specialized
collections listed at left side of page